“In a suit filed in Wayne County Circuit Court, Michael Richardson and Robert Yanagi have filed suit against the Lions and the NFL, saying they were terminated in January ‘without justification,'” Crawford wrote. “The lawsuit says that Richardson, a 52-year-old African-American, and Yanagi, a 58-year-old man of Japanese descent, were the team’s assistant video director and video operations director.”

Among the complaints outlined by the suit: Richardson had filed a complaint with the team’s human resources department about racial jokes and disparate treatment by multiple other employees. One of those employees then evaluated Richardson’s video work a “1” in every category on a 1-to-5 scale, dragging down his average score to 2.8 and laying the groundwork for Quinn to fire him.

Per Crawford, the team had declined to comment as of midday Tuesday.

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